Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 2: May, 1844 Bush of Cape Palmas, - and three days did not elapse before the sound of his anvil was heard, forging the iron work for mounting our guns. As the colony increased, new military companies were formed, and as Captain Wood was the oldest commander, he received a major's commis sion. He has also been called to fill various civil offices in the colony, holds a justice's commission and been once or twice elected vice-agent, the highest office in the gift of the people. As far as our knowledge ex tends, he has ever discharged the duties devolving upon him, either as a civil or military officer, with integrity and ability, and his private character, as we before remarked, has ever been unexceptionable - sometimes, to be sure, rather hot in a political contest, but if with a wrong head, always with a sound and patriotic heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.